Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-08-26


him honest afterwards, you have hard
job before you, Daughter and applause),
In the first plac5. in summing up. !
want you to remember that as The farmer
has the burden of the governments sup
port to bear, his interests are paramount
and they ought to be considered. don't
mean by any new party. [ don't mean
looking to the destruction of the old par
ties. When the day comes. the people OF
Augusta will select men Of enterprise.
sober and of good morals-not walking
demijohns who become too muddled to
legislate on public affairs. rejoice that
IN the past she has acquitted herself nobly
in respect to the men she has sent, but L
know of other counties Of which SO much
cannot be said. Let men III the farmers
interests be the main representation Of
your county.
THE INTER STATES COMMERCE BILL.
I CHANGED to hear discussion in Con-
gress on the Inter-States bill. Had that
bill become. law as 1t was framed and as
it passed the House, it would have proved
very good one. But when it got through
the Senate and came back. it's own father
would not have known it. 1 know that
the people of Virginia are suffering TO-
day from the determinations made by
railroads. A man comes here looking for
land. He finds fine land at $50 an acre.
You tell him that by buying here he has
the advantage of being close to market.
He goes West and they show him lands at
$25 an acre. When he asks about mar
ket they tell him why the railroad rates
from here put you nearer to market than
the land in Augusta You can raise your
crop here. send it by railroad through the
farm they offered you in Augusta and
land it in Richmond at less rate than the
| man now working that farm has to pay.
| Of course the man buys in the West.
| These determinations lower the price OF
your lands. Now if you think this over
you will find there is remedy. But
the difficulty is to get the men to framea
, law to enforce that remedY-men #
| nerve, intelligence. patriotism-men yAp
| won't be cajoled and fattered into ma5-
ures opposed to your interests. y
| FERTILIZERS.
] Mr.. Massey then spoke of the Yalueof |
diversified industries and said the farnirs |
should abandon the all-the-eggs-ln- qe-.
basket plan. They must get new purssts
on the farm, choosing them carefully nd
cautiously. Another trouble we have iShe
great anxiety to make large product Nth
| fertilizers which, he believed, in the nd !,
:, took more money out of the State tan |
they brought into it. It would be bitter
for us to make less and have it, thai to
make more and not have it. You haydthe
best fertilizer in your barn yard that you
can find anywhere. You think it strange {
[ should say to you, 'semploy man and Il
horse and send them around to gather tht [
| best material for compost on the farm. {
| You answer, 81 cannot afford to do it, !
and yet the employment of the man ap
horse would cost you less than the artii /
cial fertilizer. The great thing is not On I
making, but saving. Again, lar I
amount of the profits that ought to
into the farmers pockets go into those
the middle men. The man who produts
gets comparatively small amount OF e
result, and he ought to arrange to do mte
OF the handling of his crop.
have been invited here because I Eas
known to be in sympathy with the q n |
cultural interest. | am not more patrlf g, !
| or more unsslfsh than anybody els Il ng !
sympathy, but simply because my slnist-
| 4 fran hn rfh IN vee
own enterprise and labor. tappiause.1
MR.. CHARLES GRATTAN.
| Mr.. Charles Grattap was then i$tTo
duced by the Chair as one who la! de-
Tended the cause of the farmer in stas0a
and out. x
Mr.. Grattan opened by asking kWhat
was the cause of the existing dep4ssion
in the affairs of the farmers of the itate !
Your grass grows, your granaries amp over
flowing. and your corn cribs are not Empty,
and yet the farmers of Virginia are poorer
to-day than they were five years after the
war. TIE reason is that all the farmer
buys, he buys at an advanced price be-
cause of the protection there Is on 1t TO-
somebody else's advantage; and all he
| sells, he sells at a reduced price because
the markets of the world are shut agalns'
him in retalia ton. God let down the baIs
between the nations of the earth, but the
nations themselves have put them u
The interest of the farmers is that trade
should be free and that he should buy and
sell where he can. It is because of our il
| 1oy hot hi q haG hppp eh4nok3fg
Every other calling combines, organizes,
and its members depend on each OTTER,
while the farmer depends wholly on the sur
the soil, and himself. But the hoH has
struck when we must combine an6 oeieaa
each other.
THE RAILROAD DISCRIMINATE IS.
The railroads we have built have placed
US almost in sight of the white sails Oh iill
ocean, but their determinations IL tgelg u
have removed US almost beyor 5ie
hocky Mountains. Those railroads t1G
western country were built largely ~ cea
J gressional grants of land which oeone~e
to you and me, to be homes for oul 20 4
dren. Millions of those acres have be3r
given them by the Federal cove a'pen6
Those railroads want to make thelE l2ndi
valuable, and to DO so put them DeaIer tx
the market of the world than we are Ihel
? | tell the buyer we will place you no5rjr The
}. markets than those who live in t25ii Wei
y nifty. And SO railroads built win oul
o lands are used to kill our FARMS, An0the
0 thing is the competition Of theGe lads b.
u which produce is carried from Choago tx
e Richmond cheaper than from Stanton t.
: Richmond. Ii that cheap rata n TIL
It | .uAAA i. IN de- Of a lncs than Il aV rlaka i